Friday, 25 December 2020

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TechCrunch – Startup and Technology News − Remove
"Are you okay?" I don't have a good answer to the question. Knowing full well that I'm talking back to an algorithm — even one asking the same question of everyone with a different band mad-libbed in — doesn't soften the blow. Am I? Are...
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I remember when I was a kid and my parents would put presents under a tree and for weeks we would wait excitedly for the moment when we would get to open them. It was a great tradition that ended when we grew up, moved out, and started families of ou...
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No doubt it will go down in history as something like the "Christmas Treaty." It seems that Britain has finally struck a deal that will enable the country to savor the sovereignty it regained with Brexit. It will begin its return to independence with...
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After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe wasn't quite the horrible and backwards place earlier historians would have you believe. Modern scholars now look at the Dark Ages in a whole new light.
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Around the world, governments are starting to push back against the power of big tech companies, forcing break ups and threatening fines
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"Seasteader" housing built on platforms would rise and fall with the tides, but practical challenges are huge -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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30-second summary: Despite the overall doom and gloom, some industries actually skyrocketed in 2020. 2021 is supposed to dot some i's and cross some t's in the field of transparency and first-party data solutions. Live streaming related to gamin...
− Alex Zakrevsky • 13 hours ago ★ Save
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For over a century, students at King William's College on the Isle of Man have been given a quiz (formally the "General Knowledge Paper") just before the Christmas holidays: "Up until 1999, pupils at King William's College would sit the paper unseen ...
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Digital Photography School − Remove
The post Happy Holidays 2020 From the dPS Team appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Jaymes Dempsey. As 2020 draws to a close, we'd like to wish you all a fantastic holiday season and a joy-filled end to the year. 2020 h...
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It's urgent It's certain to work It's close by Everyone else is It might happen to you Only someone as caring as you will choose to make a difference Only someone as smart as you can understand something this complicated It will raise your stat...
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Let's time travel back to the pre-Internet days of 1975. Long-distance phone calls were $1 per minute, so people received most of their communications via US mail, and Christmas cards were so important that the average number of families on a list ...
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Designers at media companies, like The New York Times and The Washington Post, helped the public understand COVID-19—and take action to protect themselves and those around them. "Flatten the curve": It was the battle cry of 2020. Though the vis...
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The pandemic may have brought life to a screeching halt, but at least we can gaze deeply into a cool spot on a raging nuclear fireball. (NSO/AURA/NSF/) There's no way to sugarcoat it; 2020 has been rough. But despite the stagnation and turmoil on E...
− Charlie Wood • 20 hours ago ★ Save
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Futuristic Christmas Tree made out of metal features cool minimalistic design. NICHBA handcrafted full-size minimalist Christmas Tree weights 50 kg. All redundant details are removed. Shipped fully assembled in one piece. Merry Christmas to...
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"Are you okay?" I don't have a good answer to the question. Knowing full well that I'm talking back to an algorithm — even one asking the same question of everyone with a different band mad-libbed in — doesn't soften the blow. Am I? Are...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Somehow this ended up as the Christmas comic. Today's News:
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A ten-foot giant squid has washed ashore on the Western coast of Japan. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.
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It's urgent It's certain to work It's close by Everyone else is It might happen to you Only someone as caring as you will choose to make a difference Only someone as smart as you can understand something this complicated It will raise your stat...
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Over on the Polyplane blog (there's no byline but presumably it's Kilian Valkhof), there is a great article, Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data, about the prefers-reduced-data media query. No browser support yet, but eventually you can u...
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When someone fills out your Google Form, you may want to send a file or two to the form respondent. For instance: A school teacher can send a Word document containing a copy of the answers to students who have completed the quiz. A musician can send...
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At least a dozen of the 38 presidentially appointed inspectors general will not be in place at the end of the Trump administration.        
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Well, in the most optimistic and positive way possible, I'd like to bring you back to one particular shoot that I was on the set of that netted some of the most memorable shots I've ever taken. And that's before we even consider the car at...
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Lewis Hamilton isn't just the world's most successful F1 driver, he's also a key backer of a new off-road electric vehicle racing series called Extreme E.
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Feld Thoughts − Remove
Amy and I watched Tenet the other night. When we finished, she turned to me and said, "That was one big, hot mess of a movie." I sat for a moment and said, "I'm not sure it was any good, but I'm not sure." I just watched the trailer. Whi...
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Dezeen − Remove
Merry Christmas to all our readers! We'll be back with more architecture and design tomorrow. In the meantime enjoy this contemporary Christmas tree designed by Sam Jacob and read our review of 2020. Read more
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Our guest this week is Claudia Dawson. Claudia is part of the Cool Tools team, the producer of Recomendo and the editor of the weekly What's in my Bag? newsletter. You can find her on Twitter @clauddaws and her digital garden at claudiadawson.blog....
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Five Years Ago This week in 2015, while newly-leaked documents were exposing the US government's surveillance options, Hillary Clinton was nonsensically calling for an encryption "Manhattan Project" but not to produce a back door. Tom Cotton was also...
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Merry Christmas to all our readers! We'll be back with more architecture and design tomorrow. In the meantime enjoy this contemporary Christmas tree designed by Sam Jacob and read our review of 2020. Read our most popular stories from the p...
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L'agence de marques Echo a donné vie des cartes de Noël un peu particulières. Dans une année aussi imprévisible et difficile, il était temps de twister les traditions. Au lieu des cartes de Noël festives habituelles, Echo a créé une sorte ...
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Naturally, there are bad clients out there, but 90% of the time, it's not really the client who is at fault. Poor communication, a lack of setting expectations, and a failure to qualify clients beforehand is usually the problem. If you're dealing...
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Overcoming Bias − Remove
(I thought I'd said this somewhere before, but this is closest I've found.) In all human decisions, we face two main issues: A) What do we want? B) What must we accommodate? When we are rich and our universe is mild, we can focus on that first co...
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After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe wasn't quite the horrible and backwards place earlier historians would have you believe. Modern scholars now look at the Dark Ages in a whole new light.
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After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe wasn't quite the horrible and backwards place earlier historians would have you believe. Modern scholars now look at the Dark Ages in a whole new light.
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